Emma Watson on 'super-low culture' of Kim Kardashian and reality TV for 'Bling Ring' research

"The Bling Ring" is director
Sofia Coppola's next project, which chronicles the group of fame-obsessed thieves who stole from the likes of
Paris Hilton and
Lindsay Lohan. It stars
Emma Watson as Nicki, the ring-leader of the little group, who
tells EW the research for the part was fun.

"I just watched a ton of reality TV. I was doing an English course [at Brown University]. So I would go from reading Virginia Woolf to [watching] Kim Kardashian. I kind of loved it, this mix of super-high and super-low culture. I think it was a nice balance," says the former "Harry Potter" star.

Watson also tweeted the above picture of herself in costume, complete with fake tattoos peeking out,
writing, "Twitterers meet Nicki, Nicki meet twitterers : )." The first official picture from the movie is below.